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“Several of my young acquaintances are in their graves who gave promise of making happy and useful citizens and there is no question whatever that cigarettes alone were the cause of their destruction. No boy living would commence the use of cigarettes if he knew what a useless, soulless, worthless thing they would make of him.”

Ifs Use Young Science Causes Boys Knowledge Youth Citizens Promise Destruction Graves Useless Cigarette Worthless Acquaintance Soulless

Author:Luther Burbank

“Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew.”

Thinking Has Beens Home Kids Causes Streets Youth Circumstances Homeless Homelessness

Author:Jewel

“Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome.”

Humans Looks Stills Eye Pain Causes Easy My Own Boys Youth Shoes Ease Divided Troublesome Through The Eyes

Book:What is the What

Source: What is the What

“The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.”

Death Causes Imagine Youth Source Uneasiness Approaching Death

Author:William Hazlitt

“Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.”

Age Causes Effects Youth Data Necks

Book:Nightwood

Source: Nightwood

“When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.”

Feels School Causes Support Youth Adults Unusual Dictator Textbooks Slipping Impressionable Enlisting

Author:Samantha Power

“The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of a high standard of excellence, inculcated by the ablest and best men, embodied in the laws, customs and traditions of the nation, and enforced by public opinion.”

Men Seems Law Nations Causes Brain Opinion Progress Youth Standards Tradition Excellence Customs Efficient Public Opinion High Standards Good Education Customs And Traditions

Book:The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)

Source: The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)

“We will not make inroads into the gun-violence problem until we acknowledge the underlying causes of youth behavior today, compared to yesterday. ... we must come to the realization that laws and regulations alone cannot produce a civilized society. It's morality that is society's first line of defense against uncivilized behavior.”

“We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death.”

Moments Dies Causes Born Youth Birth Sickness Midst Decay Inherent

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.”

Men Self Age Beautiful Choices Causes Mistake Youth Stress True Self Being Beautiful Age And Youth Bad Choices

Author:Miuccia Prada

“What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.”

Men Want Kind Has Beens Causes Known Virtue Youth Habit Goodness Be Kind Misfortunes Virtuous Charitable Unkindness

Book:Silent on the Moor

Source: Silent on the Moor

“If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Wells Reason Past Causes Air Youth Habit Speed Preserves Scenery Retard Years Of Life New Habits Change Of Scenery

Author:Thomas Mann